Perhaps for any other couple, sure.
For them? No. If you're reading since the beggining you should know that.
They are in a BDSM relantionship, full of kinks, not only that but the Dom is also respectful and mindful of the sub, never forgetting the aftercare and listening to his partner. Sure, we may never had been shown their full conversation about their kinks, but we saw parts of it, we saw their Safewords and we know they had one - because every d/s realantionship needs said conversation about kinks, what they are okay with, what they are not, what they like and what they don't.
Somnophilia is a kink that manny people who are on the BDSM community have. Somnophilia is under CNC. CNC is Consensual Non Consent, where both parts agree and consent, beforehand, in having cnc in their relantionship, such as rape roleplays, drunk sex or sleeping sex (somnophilia).
It's even weird that someone would think that in a story who had been portraying BDSM in such a good, respectful way, the Authør would throw that out of the window and put a rape scene out of nowhere.
Specially when, even thought we didn't get to see their full kinks conversation we saw pieces of it, here and there, even in one scene where the uke says during the act that he's okay with being gagged, choked and tied up, but not with all at the same time because otherwise he wouldn't have a way to communicate if he wanted to stop, so in case of gagging/chocking his arms should be freed so he could give 2 taps in the seme arm as a sign to stop.
Specially, with in the end of same scene, which you claim to be rape, the uke saying he had an amazing dream about being fucked in his sleep, the following chapter the seme saying that he had sex with him sleeping and the uke wanting to do it again, it's really weird to still try to PIN it as rape, when everything is making clear that it was consensual and something they talked about beforehand.
So no, it wasn't rape.
Idk what you think you did, but I’m not reading all of that. This goes out to all of you who replied back to what I said. YES, it is rape. He was asleep and didn’t consent to any of it, regardless of whether they’re in a dom and sub relationship. They hardly EVER went over their limits and shit so. I said what I said and that’s all I gotta say. Y’all are ignorant asf and only see what you wanna see. Thanks xx.
Well put! Completely agree with everything you said.
Knowing their relationship, it’s a given that they have had a conversation about their kinks and I’m sure somnophilia was covered. The author put in work to make their relationship healthy and covered all the bases putting respect to BDSM and showing a true representation. The Dom would NEVER do anything the sub found a breach of trust.

I love how this took a big shit on everyone crying rape from the last chapter! Hahaha These are GOLD.